Nest of Dendrceca c.erui.escens, (£.) Bd. — In June, 1880, 1 was 

 in camp in the Northern wilderness of New York, in Hamilton County, 

 about twenty miles northeast of Wilmurt P. O., Herkimer Co. On the 

 13th of that month it rained heavily, and as we had a trip of a few 

 miles from camp to make, I allowed the weather to prevent my taking my 

 gun with me. About half-way between two small lakes, about a quarter 

 of a mile apart, on a high bluff covered with heavy spruce timber, I dis- 

 covered the nest of a Warbler. It was built about eighteen inches from 

 the ground, in the top of a dead, overturned spruce. It was a beautiful 

 structure, composed outwardly of strips of white rotten wood and inner 

 bark mingled with a few birch " curls," and neatly lined with fine black 

 roots, resembling horse-hair (I have found the same material used as 

 lining by the Olive-backed Thrush), and the finer white quills of our 

 common porcupine, some of which were even large enough for the barbs 

 to be quite perceptible to the naked eye. The nest measured as follows : 

 outside diameter, 4 inches; inside diameter. If inches; outside depth, 

 3 inches ; inside depth, ] f inches. The three eggs it contained almost 

 exactly resembled in size and markings the eggs of the Redstart, except 

 that the spots were mostly in a crown around the larger end. I was 

 unable to identify the bird, and, having nothing with which to kill her, 

 left the nest as I found it. The next day, June 14, I returned with my 

 gun and shot the female, a Black-throated Blue Warbler, as she left 

 the nest. Having secured the mother, I turned to the nest, only to find 

 three small birds, the eggs since the previous day having hatched, greatly 

 to my disappointment, as the reader may imagine. — Egbert Bagg, Jr., 

 Uiica,N.Y. BuaN.O.C. 5,Oot..!880.p, 2^f. 



